American - Novelist | June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
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I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
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Conquered people tend to be witty.
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What is art but a way of seeing?
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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